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Definition of Marsilea quadrifolia
1. Noun. Water fern of Europe and Asia and the eastern United States distinguished by four leaflets resembling clover leaves.
Group relationships: Genus Marsilea, Marsilea
Generic synonyms: Clover Fern, Pepperwort
Lexicographical Neighbors of Marsilea Quadrifolia
Literary usage of Marsilea quadrifolia
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States: Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Addison Brown (1896)
"Sporocarps glabrous and purple when mature. 1. M. quadrifolia. 1. marsilea quadrifolia
L. European Marsilea. (Fig. 73.) marsilea quadrifolia L. Sp. Pl. ..."
2. Journal of Botany, British and Foreign (1864)
"... shall have been published, we shall probably hear no more of the extreme
variation to which a single aquatic plant like marsilea quadrifolia is subject. ..."
3. Torreya by Torrey Botanical Club (1903)
"Marsilea included Salvinia natans and marsilea quadrifolia, now recognized as
types of two different families of the ..."
4. Annals and Magazine of Natural History by William Jardine (1841)
"... laid before the Meeting at Freiberg his observations on the germination of
the spores of marsilea quadrifolia. The fruit of Marsilea he considers as a ..."
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